Ripper pics there! Must join you for a fly again soon.
Dunno what makes the Geelong eagles so stroppy - I used to fly with them regularly on slopes various many years ago, and they would come for a look or soar beside us, but no aggro.
I wonder if someone has given them deliberate curry along the road and created a racial memory?
Cheers,
Pete

Ripper pics there! Must join you for a fly again soon.
Dunno what makes the Geelong eagles so stroppy - I used to fly with them regularly on slopes various many years ago, and they would come for a look or soar beside us, but no aggro.
I wonder if someone has given them deliberate curry along the road and created a racial memory?
Cheers,
Pete

Yes.. you must!!!!

Buggered if I know why they are stroppy.
I can understand in the breeding times.. but as you say.. they are all rather nasty over this side.
The Maude slope is also understandable as people have been gliding there for a loooong time and there are a lot of idiot flyers who have tried to scare them off.
But as for this slope.. we make a big effort not to antagonise them. No chasing etc.
The worst we will do is risk a sacrifice to get a good pic but she does all the hard work.. we just get out of her way.